- Common Name: Tiger Lily
- Family: Liliaceae
- Source: Tincture of the whole plant
- Miasm: Psora–Syco-syphilitic
- Thermal: Chilly patient
- Preparation: Mother tincture and potencies prepared from the entire plant
Sphere of Action
Acts primarily on the female reproductive organs, nervous system, and circulatory system. It produces congestion, heaviness, and a dragging-down sensation in pelvic organs, especially the uterus.
Key Clinical Indications
Mind
- Great anxiety about salvation; thinks she is not doing her duty spiritually
- Weeping, praying, despairing; hurried and restless
- Feels as if she will go insane if not constantly occupied
- Alternating moods: weeping ↔ laughing; religious ↔ sexual thoughts
Female Genital Organs
- Sensation as if uterus would fall out of pelvis (must cross legs tightly or press upward with hand)
- Dragging pain from back to pubes
- Prolapse of uterus and vagina, with bearing-down sensation
- Leucorrhoea: profuse, yellow, acrid, worse during day
- Dysmenorrhoea with nervous agitation
- Ovarian neuralgia, especially left-sided
- Excessive sexual desire (nymphomania)
Heart and Circulation
- Palpitation with fluttering, pressure, and faintness
- Sensation of constriction in the chest—as if heart is held in a vise
- Angina pectoris with uterine symptoms
- Pulse rapid, weak, or irregular
Respiratory
- Oppression of chest with need for fresh air
- Dry, hacking cough with pressure on chest
General
- Great bearing-down sensation in pelvis
- Wants support for abdomen or must cross limbs to prevent prolapse
- Restlessness: must walk; aggravated sitting still
Keynote Symptoms
- Uterine prolapse with dragging-down sensation
- Religious despair with lascivious thoughts
- Crossing legs relieves pelvic discomfort
- Alternation between depression and hysteria
- Heart and uterine symptoms co-exist
Modalities
|
Worse From |
Better From |
|
Standing, warm room, mental strain |
Open air, busy activity, fresh air |
Potency & Dosage
- 6C to 200C
- Acute uterine or emotional cases: 30C
- Chronic pelvic disorders: 200C or higher
- Mother tincture sometimes used externally for pelvic inflammation
Relationships
|
Complementary |
Follows Well After |
Antidotes |
|
Sepia, Pulsatilla |
Platina, Murex, Nat-mur |
Lachesis, Ignatia |
Mnemonic for Lilium
Tigrinum
“LILIUM = Lady In Labor Is Unbearably Miserable”
- L: Left-sided ovarian pain
- I: Insane fear of moral damnation
- L: Lascivious thoughts
- I: Irritable and hurried
- U: Uterine prolapse, bearing-down
- M: Must keep busy to avoid madness
One-Line Summary
Lilium Tigrinum is a major female remedy for uterine prolapse, extreme pelvic congestion, and religious anxiety alternating with sexual thoughts, often accompanied by heart and mental symptoms.
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MATERIA MEDICA